Hyderabad: Marking the sixth year of successful collaboration, Huawei India and The Akshaya Patra Foundation are taking forward their collective war against hunger and malnutrition with the distribution of 9,130 Family Happiness Kits.
Each kit, packaged to suit regional food habits, provides a family of four members with 120 meals. The Huawei and Akshaya Patra partnership was initiated in 2016 to support the school’s mid-day meal program and has since extended its scope to provide dry ration kits to underprivileged strata of society during the two years of the pandemic.
To date, the collaboration has jointly served nearly 73.9 lakh meals across geographies in Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh.
Acknowledging the partnership, Shridhar Venkat, CEO, The Akshaya Patra Foundation said, we truly appreciate and are grateful to Huawei India for their support through the years. Our partnership is aligned with our endeavour to eradicate classroom hunger by providing mid-day meals to government school children. We hope our collaboration with Huawei India keeps growing and continues to positively impact more lives.”
Speaking on the collaboration, Huawei India CEO David Li said, the current scenario makes it imperative that we join hands with partners with proven track record for supporting communities in need. Our six-year long association with The Akshaya Patra Foundation has jointly worked to address malnutrition in children by eliminating classroom hunger. We will remain continue to expand our corporate social responsibility initiatives in India with initiatives and projects that benefit the Indian society and industry”.
In addition to school mid-day meals and Family Happiness Kits, the support from Huawei has also been to provide for food distribution vehicles and kitchen utensils and infrastructure.
